Tag: gardening

  • Earth Friendly Gardens

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    I stopped by my friends Fred and Deb’s house the other day and noticed they had their seed catalogs out with pages of heirloom plants already bookmarked. As early as it seems, within the next couple of months Fred will have his grow light going and his heat mats out warming spinach, kale and lettuce…

  • Edible Landscape Saves $700 in Grocery Bills

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    Rosalind Creasy along with her writing partner, Cathy Wilkinson Barash decided to experiment with creating an edible landscape to see what kind of cost savings could be realized at the grocers.  Their results are chronicled in an article in Mother Earth News. The Objective I took a 5-by-20-foot section of garden bed by my tiny lawn…